WD40 again

[ilex cameron ross]

Thanks for the info - I believe my patient was actually a Cable-Nelson
console. And I *swear* I could see where the original screw holes were for a
normal hinge. However, the vandal-proof notion helps me make sense of *why*.
The piano had been in a church for who knows how long. Still, how about WD40
on hammers - someone? Anyone? Beuller?

-ilex

}-----Original Message-----
}From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
}Behalf Of Tom Driscoll
}Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:34 AM
}To: Pianotech
}Subject: Re: WD40 again
}
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}----- Original Message -----
}From: "ilex cameron ross" <i1ex@earthlink.net>
}To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
}Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:31 PM
}Subject: WD40 again
}
}
}> Another one of my fun appointments this week was an
}> almost-impossible-to-open upright. Nothing out of the ordinary about this
}> piano, just your average console. Except that some DEAR soul had for some
}> unknown reason gone and removed the lid hinges and replaced them with
}> unbendable thick L-shaped pieces of steel held in place by thick rusting,
}> stripped, allen-wrench bolts. *frustration and strife*
}>
}> ilex
}
}    Ilex,
}    The Everett studio "school" pianos have that arrangement to "vandal-
}proof " the piano.
}    and the reason that they are stripped is probably from attempts to
}remove them with an incorrect tool.
}    I service quite a few of these and have the correct Allen wrench in my
}kit.
}    I'm too lazy to go out to the shop to measure but my recollection is
}that the wrench is 1/4" size
}    In a pinch you can remove them by inserting the shaft end of your handy
}hammer (the one that fits into the combination handle) into the bolt as a
}make shift tool.
}Don't make a habit of this as the bolt is a lot harder than the
}tool and the
}tool will lose the fight.
}    DAMHIK
}    Tom Driscoll
}
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